What a fantastic achievement for the team to beat the record of unbeaten games held by the Greatest Team in Scottish Football History, The Lisbon Lions, and indeed the Greatest Football Club in the World, and in Brendan’s first season to boot.

It was a sensational way to beat the record yesterday, considering we had to play without a recognised striker, and without three or four other players who would normally be first picks in the team, and against a Hearts team who sit fourth in the League and normally give us a very hard game.

It was one of the those games when there were no failures in the team, every single player played well, but I would have to say that the two full backs Cristian Gamboa and Kieron Tierney were both outstanding.

So the team beat the record held by the Lions, but its took fifty years to do it, and some very good Celtic Teams didn’t even get close, which makes it all the more remarkable.

One of those Famous Lisbon Lions is still making headlines in his home town of Saltcoats, The Buzz Bomb Bobby Lennox, Bobby was born and still lives in Saltcoats, he will be 74 on August 30th this year.

The local residents are raising funds to erect a statue of Bobby in the town, which I believe is a fantastic idea, and there is no-one more worthy than Lemon. Bobby is Celtic’s second highest goal scorer, which is remarkable considering he wasn’t a central striker.

Bobby won eleven league titles, a record eight Scottish Cups, five League Cups, ten Scotland Caps, and of course the Big One, The Cup with the Big Ears, like most of the Lions, they were not rewarded with Scottish Caps as much as they should have been, to the eternal shame of those involved.

I see Bobby at every home match, he has not changed a bit, always smiling, none more so than when in the company of his Lions Brothers, and players who came after that, like George Mc Cluskey, Dixie Deans, Tommy Callaghan, and Evan Williams.

The Celtic Supporters Association are delighted to support this wonderful initiative. We would encourage anyone who can afford it to make a donation. I could talk and write all day about Wee Bobby, he epitomises everything that is Great about our Club. We wish the Committee every success in their fund raising. Incidentally, but not surprising, it is not just Celtic Supporters who are on the fund raising committee, Bobby was popular with all true football supporters.

Below is the link to the fund raising Facebook Page, and the link to the crowd funding page.

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The Celtic Supporters Association

The Celtic Supporters Association was the idea of Willie Fanning whose dream became a reality back in September 1944.

These were dark days on and off the pitch with the Second World War still raging and in comparison to those horrors rather more trivialy Celtic were not providing much joy to its supporters and defeat was a regular experience. Indeed the idea of a supporters association came to 27-year-old Willie while watching the Bhoys get thrashed 6-2 at Hamilton.

Willie decided to write to the Daily Record calling on fellow Celtic fans interested in establishing a supporters club to get in touch. A total of 14 people replied. Consequently a meeting was arranged at St Mark's and St Paul's Hall, Chester Street in Shettleston. The meeting proved to be a success - a provisional committee was installed and Willie was elected as President.

By the time of the second meeting at the A.O.H. Hall in Alexandria Parade in Townhead the word had spread. The hall was packed and car loads of supporters from across Glasgow and beyond eager to attend created a traffic jam along the parade.

A constitution was drawn up which allowed the new organosation to become an amalgamation of supporters clubs. Within 12 months membership had rocketed to 700 and the association had won the official endorsement of Celtic FC who handed over the responsibility of distributing match tickets to affiliated branches of the CSA.

The CSA remains a strong and influential body. Apart from following Celtic in massive numbers it has a social club in Glasgow and its annual Supporters Rally is a highlight in the Celtic calendar.

True to the traditions of Celtic FC the CSA also has a proud and continued ethos of raising funds for charity.